Touching Grass

Beans Were a Slur Before They Were a Trend

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This week on Touching Grass, we’re talking about beans… but not really.

From “BeanTok” to avocado toast, this episode dives into how certain foods, styles, slang, and trends suddenly become “cool” once they’re adopted by the mainstream, while the communities who created them are still judged, stereotyped, or erased.

As a Latina, I wanted to explore the deeper layers behind trends:

Who gets to…